Christian Writers and Preachers

O may the grace of God enable me to live a less unprofitable life, using my faculties more to God’s glory and walking by faith and bringing forth fruit abundantly.

—William Wilberforce

May I henceforth live under a more habitually lively sense of the mercies of Christ.

—William Wilberforce

O may I have my conversation in heaven and my affections set on things above, looking for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

—William Wilberforce

I will go to prayer though alas I have no heart for it.

—William Wilberforce

Praise the Lord, O my soul for all his goodness.

—William Wilberforce

Christianity commands not the show but the reality of meekness & gentleness

—William Wilberforce

Christianity is not satisfied with producing merely the specious guise of virtue.

—William Wilberforce

O guide us and direct us and teach us to remember practically that the time is short.

—William Wilberforce

O may I spend my time profitably, and above all, may I grow in grace, in love and be made more meet to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light.

—William Wilberforce

Christianity teaches us not to prize human estimation at a very high rate, and thereby provides for the practice of her injunction, to love from the heart those who, justly or unjustly may have attacked our reputation, and wounded our character.

—William Wilberforce

Men who, acting from worldly principles, make the greatest stir about general philanthropy or zealous patriotism, are often very deficient in their conduct in domestic life.

—William Wilberforce

If I had waited on God continually and lived on him and Christ by faith I should have brought forth more fruit 10 times 1,000 times over.

—William Wilberforce

Help me O God, enable me to turn to thee with my whole heart and to serve thee in newness of nature in Christ.

—William Wilberforce

Improving in almost every other branch of knowledge, we have become less and less acquainted with Christianity.

—William Wilberforce

I look with humble hope to the promises of Scripture. Ho everyone that thirsts, etc.

—William Wilberforce

I would humbly resolve, through the Spirit, to live by faith and to go on diligently, devoutly, humbly, endeavouring to glorify God and benefit my fellow creatures.

—William Wilberforce

O how out I to strive to live to God’s glory, having been hitherto so unprofitable a servant.

—William Wilberforce

Help me O God to desire to do or suffer thy will.

—William Wilberforce

O what mercies have we to be thankful for, yet how little are we conscious and affectingly and habitually sensible of them.

—William Wilberforce

I have sadly neglected the cultivation of my natural talents. Let me now attend to it, imploring the divine blessing. I will form a plan of study and exercise, having a special reference to the faults of my intellect, whether natural or superinduced.

—William Wilberforce

In proportion as vital Christianity can be revived, in that same proportion the church establishment is strengthened

—William Wilberforce

How little have I done for God since I devoted myself to him. I fly for pardon to the mercy of God in Christ.

—William Wilberforce

He will give to him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

—William Wilberforce

May I be active and unwearied in doing good and improving my time etc. Amen. Live by faith above all.

—William Wilberforce

O may I desire to praise God and Christ and present body and soul a reasonable service of sacrifice.

—William Wilberforce

I humbly hope I look up with faith as the only way of obtaining all spiritual blessings, renouncing any other plea but Christs’s merits and the Scripture promises.

—William Wilberforce

Enable me, O God, for Christ’s sake, to turn to thee.

—William Wilberforce

Christianity without distinction professes an equal regard for all human beings, and was characterised by her first promulgator as the messenger of ‘glad tidings to the poor’.

—William Wilberforce

How can we easily love our neighbour as ourselves, if we consider him at the same time as our rival, and are intent upon surpassing him in the pursuit of whatever is the subject of our competition?

—William Wilberforce

I pray to be enabled to observe a due medium between undue conformity with the world and excessive separation and peculiarity.

—William Wilberforce